A power control method for a terminal, including: obtaining, by the terminal, a quality parameter of a received signal, a receiving power of a code channel occupied by the terminal and a power of code channels in a cell having the same carrier frequency and the same time slot as those of the code channel occupied by the terminal respectively, according to a received signal quality; determining the minimum receiving power which is permitted by the code channel occupied by the terminal according to the power of the code channels in the cell having the same carrier frequency and the same time slot as those of the code channel occupied by the terminal; and generating a power control command according to a determined minimum receiving power, the receiving power of the code channel occupied by the terminal and the quality parameter of the received signal.